Elementary school counselors support classroom teachers and the overall educational team by helping students remove barriers to learning.  The three primary methods for delivering guidance services include: individual counseling, small, topic-based discussion groups, and classroom guidance lessons. 

Counseling services aim to facilitate growth in the following areas: academic, career, and personal-social development.   Cardinal Forest counselors support the school mission by encouraging academic excellence, and helping to develop lifelong learners who are respectful, responsible, and productive citizens. 

Some reasons parents contact a school counselor include:

• Academic achievement
• Decision-making / Behavior 
• Interpersonal communication and social skills
• Family Transitions: moving, military deployment, changing family due to marriage, separation or divorce
• Family illness or loss
• Student crisis situations

How to see a counselor:

• Students may tell their classroom teacher that they want to see their counselor. 
• Students may leave messages for their counselors in the front office or in the envelope outside the counselors' room. 
• Parents can call the counselors to discuss, or request the counselor meet with their child. 
• Teachers and administrators may ask the counselors to meet with students.